What happens when ex-Lycoris employees join a Linux-friendly hardware computer reseller? Apparently, a new desktop Linux distro with a kick: the hardware that comes with it is meant to give you the Apple experience. ION Linux is a Debian-based distro that is meant to work well with the hardware it sells with. Read on for our interview with Element Computer's Mike Hjorleifsson (one of the founders and CTO) regarding their new upcoming products and a screenshot of ION.

KDE, restricted APT sources, no dev kit...the mystery Debian-based distro they are based on is obviously Lindows.

And the reason they won't divulge the name and locations of their developers is not because they're in the Federal Witness Protection Program like they make it sound but because they don't have any. (Except the guy in charge of running perl -pi -e 's/Lindows/ION/g;' on every file!)